A House subcommittee investigating compliance by American companies with the Arab economic boycott is to make public next week a comprehensive report that was described to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency today as “a damning indictment” of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
The report of approximately 15,000 words was prepared by the subcommittee on oversight and investigation of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee. It will be released Tuesday at the Capitol by the subcommittee’s chairman, Rep. John E. Moss (D. Calif.).
According to Capitol sources, the report covers approximately 30,000 memoranda and reports, about two-thirds of them previously confidential reports to the Commerce Department by American trading with the Arab world.
These reports were said to cover the demands made by Arab countries in the years 1974 and 1975 on American companies wishing contracts to comply with their boycott of concerns man
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